Idaho Fish and Game wildlife managers are asking deer hunters to review Fish and Game’s draft management plans for mule deer and white-tailed deer and provide feedback to the department on the overall concepts of the plans and whether topics are missing that might improve them.

If you have never “dunked a worm” or “wet a fly”, you don’t know what you are missing! And, here is your chance to find out. Saturday, June 8, is Free Fishing Day in Idaho, which means anyone can fish without a license on any of Idaho’s waters open to fishing. To help celebrate the day, there will be several Free Fishing Day events around southeast Idaho.

Idaho Fish and Game wildlife managers are asking deer hunters to review Fish and Game’s draft management plans for mule deer and white-tailed deer and provide feedback to the department on the overall concepts of the plans and whether topics are missing that might improve them.

Over seven weeks in April and May, Fish and Game biologists conducted a logistics study to determine how effective removing rainbow trout from the South Fork of the Snake River would be. It resulted in 5,857 rainbow taken from the river and moved to other local waters for anglers.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission in May approved three land deals that will expand two wildlife management areas near Boise and Idaho Falls and provide habitat for numerous species, as well as provide additional land for hunting.